Not exact matches
A better strategy: Settle on a diversified
mix of stocks and
bonds that makes sense given your risk tolerance and how long you plan to keep your money invested, and then largely stick to it
except for occasional rebalancing.
Once you've settled on a stocks -
bonds allocation that you feel provides the right balance of risk and return, you should largely stick to it,
except to rebalance periodically and perhaps gradually shift to a more conservative
mix as you near and enter retirement.
You create a
mix of stocks -
bonds based on your age and risk tolerance — which generally means investing 70 % to 90 % of your savings in stocks early in your career — and pretty much leave it alone
except to rebalance periodically.
The «Goldilocks» approach is abetter way to go — that is, create a stocks -
bonds mix in your 401 (k) that's neither too conservative nor too aggressive for your risk tolerance, age and financial goals, and then leave it alone,
except to rebalance periodically.
Once you've settled on a stocks -
bonds mix, leave it alone,
except perhaps to rebalance every year or so.
The right move: Set a
mix of stocks and
bonds that's in synch with your risk tolerance and that's reasonable given how long you intend to keep your money invested and,
except for periodic rebalancing, stick to it.
Which is why once you've build your broadly diversified portfolio with a
mix of stock and
bond index funds that jibe with your tolerance for risk, you pretty much should leave it alone,
except to periodically rebalance your holdings (and perhaps gradually shift to a more conservative stance as you age).
Once you've created a portfolio of stocks and
bonds that makes sense for you, you should largely avoid tinkering with it whatever the market is doing,
except to rebalance back to your original asset
mix periodically (say, once a year).
And once you've created a stocks -
bonds mix that's right for you, you should largely leave it alone
except to rebalance periodically to restore your portfolio to its original proportions.
The risk / return cross plot for a cash and stock
mixed portfolio looks nearly identical to the
bond / stock cross plots I've already presented,
except the returns and volatility are even lower.
Create a
mix of
bonds that's appropriate given your risk tolerance and how long you plan to keep that money invested (which you can do with this risk tolerance - asset allocation tool) and largely leave that
mix alone
except to rebalance.